I’m currently exploring the possibility of running VCV Rack on a single-board computer and would appreciate any guidance or advice from this knowledgeable community. It would be awesome if we could put a long touchscreen bar inside of our eurorack rack.
I considering buying an Orange Pi 5 Pro, a Raspberry Pi 5, or a UDOO BOLT. Each of these devices seems to meet the CPU and memory requirements for VCV Rack. However, I understand that VCV Rack recommends a dedicated graphics card, which these devices do not have. They use integrated GPUs instead.
I’m also planning to use a touchscreen for a more interactive experience and an Expert Sleepers ES-9 for audio interfacing.
Has anyone tried a similar setup? If so, could you share your experiences? Were there any performance issues, and how did you overcome them? Any tips or tricks for optimizing the setup would be greatly appreciated. I also discovered Cardinal and Mi rack for Linux would this be a more capable approach?
rack is not really optimized for touch screen usage - there are a few threads about this topic i think
if you are not feeling well with building rack and the plugins yourself, better use some intel device as this way you can use the regular rack binaries
there is also cardinal as a somewhat different spinoff of an older version of rack with builds for arm as well (just search for it and you will find it)